What must Heupel do going forward this season?

#52
#52
Defense is not as bad as some of you think, and losing Banks would be a disaster. They picked on the freshman, UT’s got some injuries. UGA is still loaded deep with talent.

One critique of CJH is his tendency to take his foot off the gas and lose momentum. The creativity is lacking on the offensive side of the ball in key moments.
 
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cdb88 said:
I say win 2 of 3 against flordia, bama and Oklahoma. Otherwise he's showing regression. Tim Banks needs to be on the hot seat.
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I'm still a Banks fan. How many teams would have fared as well against UGA with 3 DL and 2 starting corners out of the rotation? This team is better than the '24 team and, when healthy, maybe as good or better than the '22 team--maybe the best team in almost 25 years. Time and injuries will tell.
 
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LAVol1 said:
Before we do that, I'll give Muschamp $3.5M to stay where he is!
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He’s not coaching anywhere right now. I suspect it’s because he wants to have the ability to watch his son play at Vandy if he becomes the starter. Making him the highest paid assistant in college football it might make him rethink things. Just for comparison Penn State paid Jim Knowles 3.1 to get him from Ohio State. It’s not really an unprecedented amount of money
 
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sonofUT62 said:
He’s not even the DC. He’s an analyst on a D that just gave up 41 points to a first year QB despite having 4-5 stars at nearly every position.
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He’s not even with Georgia anymore. He at least wasn’t with them Saturday. He was at Vandy for his son. Also we scored as much as we did because Brazzell played like prime Randy Moss. He would be a significant upgrade from Tim Banks though. Plus he would help bring some of that edge back that we lost with Ekeler
 
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cdb88 said:
I say win 2 of 3 against flordia, bama and Oklahoma. Otherwise he's showing regression. Tim Banks needs to be on the hot seat.
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Funny what a few games of looking like an elite football team will do.

Everyone, fans and media, expected this to be a rebuilding year with 7 to 9 wins. Now that it looks like we could exceed that, the natural conclusion is that Heupel must win 10 or else we’ve regressed. el oh el.
 
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DaltonVol2298 said:
Muschamp isn’t on their staff anymore though. Not sure what the reason for that is, but I know his son left UGA before that.
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Probably didn’t want to have commitments to coaching in the case his son wins the starting job at Vandy after Pavia leaves. I’m sure he wants to be able to go to his games, and he’s in a position financially where he doesn’t have to work. Although in a year or two he may get that itch again, and if he does we’d be stupid to not reach out
 
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Fatman Photos said:
Our back-up corners (one a true freshmen) got exposed a little. Once the Starters return I don't think it will be the same.
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Best case scenario we get McCoy back in October. We’re probably just going to have to make due with what we have and Banks is just going to have to adjust his blitz packages to give Redmond help from time to time or teach him to get his hands up when the receiver turns his head for the ball
 
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CJH has to hope he gets Moi / Hobbs back for the big games and both stay healthy. He has to hope that Redmond grows up fast since it looks unlikely Gibson or McCoy plays this year at all. He has to hope his subpar safety talent doesn’t get him beat and that Spillman grows into a starter at LB and AC avoids injury.

If those things happen . . . AND we can keep this oline going / healthy . . . We are a 10-2 CFP team with a chance to win the SEC in a rematch with UGA while celebrating wins over Bama and Florida along the way.

But that is a lot to hope for on the injury front.

Bottom line - his offense is humming . . . But even healthy our DL is nowhere near as good or deep as it was last year. Our LB play is average overall (Telander gives effort but he is too slow / takes bad angles), our safety play is below average . . . And the strength of the defense - the corners - is now gone.

We have to win with shootouts and turnovers.
 
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Amazing, you rebuild an OL that can rival 2022...maybe be even better and score a ton of points. Who knew. The OL the last two years has not lacked in effort, but they just were not that talented as a group when it comes to playing actual teams you need to beat. The offense on Saturday put up way more points than you'd need in a game to win. Didn't work out. Can't say it was much GA did, it was a lot of what TN didn't do. Plus, Banks is missing two starting DL and his starting corners. I mean you have key players out at worst two areas possible going in to playing a GA? Not meant as an excuse, but it also isn't ideal. Heck on could argue it might have made little difference. TN just needs to take care of it's own business, realizing that at this level the small things absolutely matter. They didn't get those done.
 
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Keep scoring 40+ every game will go a long way toward winning out. OU is who concerns me the most, glad UT has them at home. I don't believe Bama has the defense to hold down UT's offense. They looks lazy and undisciplined against FSU. They didn't just fix that in 2 weeks.There is no telling what UF is going to look like in November. Harrison Bailey has a good chance to be the starting QB by then. Lagway is a disaster right now. If Napier is fired after Miami, that is the 4th game, there may be a lot of redshirts and transfer portal dudes come next Monday. UCLA, VA Tech, and UF may not be able to field teams in a month. With NIL this is a whole new ballgame with coaches being fired this early. The players already have been paid, they don't have to finish the season to collect the paycheck.
 
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It is amazing how a 1 point loss changes the narrative. After the game I heard some talking heads say Georgia is the best team in the conference, but we were ranked much lower. I couldn’t help but wonder how they would have ranked us if we had won. It is so frustrating that we started the season with critical injuries. Last year injuries gradually took down a very good team. This year we start handicapped with key players out and have to recover.
 
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TJVol95 said:
Like Spurrier keep your foot on the gas! Eff field goals. GBO!!
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This is what I've been saying. It seems too many times in big games we jump out to big leads and then reel the offense in and rely on defense to make stops. That's not going to happen this year. Florida, Bama and Oklahoma (maybe even Vandy) are to good offensively to rely solely on defense to win the game. If it takes winning 54-50 every game, let's do it.
 
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